Dominican Republic - Food imports (% of merchandise imports)

The value for Food imports (% of merchandise imports) in Dominican Republic was 19.30 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 48 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 20.94 in 1976 and a minimum value of 11.88 in 1985.

Definition: Food comprises the commodities in SITC sections 0 (food and live animals), 1 (beverages and tobacco), and 4 (animal and vegetable oils and fats) and SITC division 22 (oil seeds, oil nuts, and oil kernels).

Source: World Bank staff estimates through the WITS platform from the Comtrade database maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division.

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Year Value
1972 14.40
1973 19.33
1974 17.30
1975 13.90
1976 20.94
1977 17.38
1978 16.75
1979 16.89
1980 16.51
1981 17.49
1982 15.62
1983 14.68
1984 12.91
1985 11.88
2001 12.13
2002 16.36
2003 18.59
2004 16.68
2005 14.25
2006 14.87
2007 14.59
2008 15.97
2009 14.28
2010 13.55
2011 14.28
2012 13.91
2013 13.55
2014 14.32
2015 15.16
2016 15.00
2017 15.02
2018 14.61
2019 14.92
2020 19.30

Limitations and Exceptions: Previous editions contained data based on the SITC revision 1. Data for earlier years in previous editions may differ because of the change in methodology. Concordance tables are available to convert data reported in one system to another.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: The classification of commodity groups is based on the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC) revision 3.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

General Comments: Merchandise import shares may not sum to 100 percent because of unclassified trade.

Classification

Topic: Private Sector & Trade Indicators

Sub-Topic: Imports